Former Tronoh assemblyperson Paul Yong will start his jail sentence today after the Federal Court dismissed his final appeal in his rape case, where he was found guilty of committing the crime against his maid in 2019.

The panel, chaired by Chief Justice Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh, rejected the appeal after finding Yong’s defence baseless and that there was no reason to disturb the lower courts’ conviction.